Vaccines

Lessons Learned in Building Sustainable and Accessible Chatbots

By Priya Pradhan • May 12, 2023

After developing WhatsApp chatbots to support CARE Bangladesh and CARE Nigeria's programs promoting immunizations, CARE learned numerous important lessons about chatbot logistics, developing content, and chatbot building.

CARE Nigeria explores digital health campaigning through WhatsApp

By Priya Pradhan • May 10, 2023

Building on pre-existing efforts to engage communities and increase their access to vaccination services, CARE Nigeria developed and launched a chatbot on WhatsApp in 2022 that disseminated early childhood immunization information in an engaging, yet easy-to-use format.

CARE Bangladesh launches chatbot on WhatsApp to promote immunization

By Priya Pradhan and Priyotosh Das • May 4, 2023

CARE Bangladesh—with support from Meta—used Turn.io's user-friendly platform to build a chatbot on WhatsApp that would provide people in Bangladesh with immunization knowledge.

CARE Nigeria Works with Influencers at Scale for SBCC Campaign on Childhood Immunization

By Habeeb Sulaiman and Brandie Feuer • December 29, 2022

CARE Nigeria worked with the influencer agency AIfluence to collaborate with 25 trusted messengers from Yobe State to spread awareness about the importance of childhood immunization.

Trusted Messengers Drive Positive Social Behavioral Change on Social Media

By Brandie Feuer • February 11, 2022

CARE ran two social and behavioral change communications campaigns on social media, one featuring distinguished U.S. Veterans as trusted messengers and a second featuring content that dispelled common myths about the vaccines. We wanted to discover which approach would drive a higher increase in belief that the COVID vaccines were safe and that getting vaccinated was important.

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The Power of Authenticity in Social Behavioral Change Communications

By Brandie Feuer • February 4, 2022

Personal stories prove trustworthy when it comes to social media.

Exploring Faith Leadership and COVID Vaccine Adoption

By Jessica Kirkwood • January 27, 2022

Can an evangelical faith leader reduce vaccine hesitancy among white, evangelical protestant populations with high hesitancy?

As Omicron risk rises, CARE supports COVID-19 vaccine delivery to 126 million people

December 2, 2021

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 creating unknown risks around the world sadly proves what we have known for a long time: no one is safe until everyone is safe. Investing in getting vaccines to the last mile for 70% of the global population, and paying the health care workers who do it is the only way to end the pandemic. CARE’s Fast and Fair initiative does just that, supporting vaccine delivery i

Social Behavioural Change Communications Campaigns: The power of context in a fast-changing environment

By Kateřina Buráňová, CARE Czech Republic • November 17, 2021

How CARE Czech Republic became a part of a fascinating learning process through a global partnership with Meta, formerly Facebook.

How CARE is Leading a Women-Focused COVID Response in Indonesia

By CARE Indonesia Staff & Reid Davis • October 18, 2021

Q&A with Bona Siahaan, CEO of Yayasan CARE Peduli (CARE Indonesia), on the country’s second COVID wave and how the organization has shifted to meet the community’s needs.

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